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Little Canada’s “Other” Transportation Infrastructure: Walking

By on June 28, 2017 in Sidewalks, Suburbia, Walking

This is part of a series of posts about a study on Little Canada’s transportation infrastructure for people who take transit, walk, and/or bike. In Transit: Parts One and Two, I discussed my motives behind my study along with some information and statistics about transit ridership in Little Canada. This part has an analysis of Little Canada’s pedestrian […]

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Scrutinizing Roads To The Same Degree As Transit

By on May 11, 2017 in Politics, Transportation

Note: This article contains my personal opinions and are not official nor endorsed statements from my employer. The Tunnel Vision That Shapes Transportation Funding Proposals The current omnibus bill proposal regarding the state’s allocations for transportation funding has been a popular subject for Minnesotans. The Republican legislators successfully passed their proposed omnibus bills in both […]

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Little Canada’s “Other” Transportation Infrastructure: Transit, Part Two

By on March 27, 2017 in Suburbia, Transit

This is part of a series of posts pertaining to a study on Little Canada’s transportation infrastructure for people who take transit, walk, and/or bike. In Transit: Part One, I discussed my motives behind my study along with some information and statistics about transit ridership in Little Canada. This part contains an analysis of a study done […]

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Little Canada’s “Other” Transportation Infrastructure: Transit, Part One

By on March 1, 2017 in Buses, Suburbia, Transit, Transportation

Introduction & Motives Behind The Study Getting around Little Canada is relatively easy, if you have access to a vehicle. The advantages of being an inner-ring suburb of Saint Paul means that it’s well connected to the metro’s freeway network (Interstates 35E and 694, and State Highway 36). But it lacks sidewalk, bicycling, and transit infrastructure. This encourages […]

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Analyzing Potential Road Diet Candidates in St Paul

By on June 30, 2016 in Safety, Traffic, Transportation, Walking

Larger version of map (24×36 PDF) Preface Since Bill did a phone interview with me about this map and wrote about it last Monday, I figured I should explain this map in greater detail, such as my reasoning behind creating it. This article contains my motives, the process of creating the map, the limitations of […]

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A Small Town Template for Suburbia

By on June 2, 2014 in Land use, Parking, Planning, Suburbia, Urban Design

Something I always encounter when reading about development in the suburbs are phrases like “we have a small-town feel”. The problem is most suburbs are far from being like small towns. Even suburbs that used to be small towns are usually sprawled out (i.e. Forest Lake) to the point they really lose the charm of […]

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Can We Kill Two Birds with One Stone when it Comes to Light Rail Planning?

By on March 24, 2014 in Infrastructure, Trains, Transit, Transportation

With all the controversy about the Southwest Corridor alignment (especially its rising construction costs), a question could be is why don’t we merge the Southwest Line project with the planned Bottineau Line project? Matt Steele’s post from last month has some great ideas on improving our light rail system, but I have another idea similar […]

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